Peek behind security at UW lab with bird flu virus

9:50 PM,
Feb. 23, 2013

Health officials burn culled ducks after more than 1,000 ducks in the area died from bird flu, in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 6. Bird flu has killed at least 360 people worldwide since 2003, 160 of them in Indonesia, making it the country hardest-hit by the deadly virus.

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Karen Herzog
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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A bird flu virus at the center of an international debate sits in a padlocked freezer, deep inside a University of Wisconsin-Madison lab, waiting for new government guidelines that will allow researchers to continue unlocking its secrets.